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Eric was born December 4, 1957. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts
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Raymond career took off in 1980.
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Raymond adopted the Jargon File because there had been no update to it since 1983.
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Raymond Updates "essentially destroyed what held it together.'
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Raymond worked on popclient. Popclient is an open-source email software. He later changed popclients name to Fetchmail.
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Raymond presented his thesis at the annual Linux Kongress.
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Raymond wrote The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The book was about open-source software development. He believed it should be done openly and therefore a lot of the book instills that point.
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Raymond became very popular and very important when it came to the open-source movement.
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Raymond was the co-founder of in the Open Source Initiative.
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Raymond turned his thesis into a book called The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary.
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Raymond wrote the Art of Unix Programming. It talks about user tools.
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The kernel developers rejected his original idea of the CML2.
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Raymond stepped down from being the president of the initiative in OSI.
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Raymond created a source code configuration system called CML2.
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Raymond is currently still working. He does things such as projects for the GPS data tool gpsd. He also does work with Nethack.
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He also continues to do work for The Battle for Wesnoth.
